Multi-agency sweep results in four child porn arrests

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Four San Francisco men were arrested Tuesday for possessing child pornography, San Francisco police said.

Investigators with the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force said they caught the men by targeting peer-to-peer file sharing.

Investigators identified the suspects in chat rooms, and then obtained warrants for their IP addresses. By connecting the IP addresses to their owners, investigators obtained search warrants for homes, where they found child pornography.

The warrants led to multi-agency raids in San Francisco’s Excelsior, South of Market, Ocean View and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods, police said. More than 100 officers from 23 agencies throughout the Bay Area took part in the raids.

Alexis Zhong Wang, 25, was arrested at his home on the 700 block of Naples Street; Jaime Rodriguez, 46, on the 500 block of Natoma Street; Juan Martinez, 28, on the unit block of Cielto Drive and Guillermo Escandon-Aguilar, 28, on the 200 block of Russia Avenue.

They were booked into San Francisco county jail on suspicion of possessing child pornography — a felony.

Two more search warrants were served Tuesday, but did not result in arrests. Police said investigations will continue in those two cases.